Stropper



March 26, 1940. J. D. CHIESA STROPPER Filed July 21, 1939 J2. U/az'esa IN VEN TOR.

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Patented Mar. 26, 1940 UNITED ST has OFFICE STROPPER Joe D. Chiesa, Broadus, Mont.

Application July 21, 1939, Serial No. 285,779

2 Claims. (01. 51-280) istics of red cedar being such that when boiled in linseed oil, that wood will furnish the most satisfactory body or base for a stropper. The invention aims, further, to provide a novel process for making a razor stropper.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhancethe utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear asthe description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention. I

In the accompanm'ng drawing:

Fig. 1 shows, in perspective, ablock of red cedar wood, adapted to form part of a device constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the completed article.

A block I of red cedar wood is boiled in a siccative oil, preferably linseed oil, until the block is permeated, as indicated at 2, ten minutes of boiling being enough, ordinarily, for a block the size of a razor stropper. plus oil is wiped oh, and before the oil has dried or set, as much lampblack 3 as the wood will take is worked, under pressure, into the strapping surfaces 4 of the block. The oil dries, and efiective stropping areas result.

15 Considering the characteristics of lampblack and linseed oil, and the nature of red cedar wood, nothing can be substituted for that wood with satisfactory consequences.

The article has no appreciable virtue as a hone, 20

but as a stropping device it will edge-up a razor quicker and more perfectly than the ordinary leather or canvas stropper, or astropper which does not have a red cedar body.

What is claimed is:

l. A razor strop comprising a piece of red cedar the fibers of which retain lampblack and a siccative oil. I

2. A method of making a razor strop, which comprises boiling a piece of red cedar in linseed 30 oil, and Working lampblack into the piece, under pressure, before the oil has dried.

" JOE D. CHIESA.

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